Terror mastermind and senior Al-Qaeda leader Anwar al-Awlaki is dead a senior U.S. official confirms.

Al-Awlaki, a U.S.-born Islamic militant cleric who became a prominent figure in Al-Qaeda's most active branch, using his fluent English and Internet savvy to draw recruits to carry out attacks in the United States, was killed Friday in the mountains of Yemen, American and Yemeni officials said.

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Yemeni security officials and local tribal leaders said al-Awlaki was killed in an air strike on his convoy that they believed was carried out by the Americans. They said pilotless drones had been seen over the area in previous days

“Al-Awlaki’s parents are from Yemen. His father, Nasser al-Aulaqi, was a Fulbright Scholar.[45] who earned a master’s degree in agricultural economics at New Mexico State University in 1971, received a doctorate at the University of Nebraska, and worked at the University of Minnesota from 1975 to 1977.[14][46]

“Anwar was seven years old when his family returned to Yemen in 1978.[2][16] He then lived in Yemen for 11 years, and studied at Azal Modern School.[50]

Al-Awlaki returned to Colorado in 1991 to attend college. He earned a B.S. in Civil Engineering from Colorado State University (1994), where he was President of the Muslim Student Association.”(Wiki)

if true then good but does FOX have to cover this every minute, who decides who now gets a burial?
The pentagon is being very quiet.
Did this admin know because they are quiet so was this a CIA mission ?
Why no DNA or photo’s?

So many differences between Bin Laden and this nut and no one has a clue what our foreign policy is .

To th eleft they say Bush for war crimes but their man can order airstrikes on an American citizen.
Bush got done over Gitmo but airstrikes is OK.
Gitmo would give us info, killing right off the bat does not

I still object to media using the term home-grown terrorist. We dont produce these people as though a natural by-product or outcropping of our own society, they have voluntarily transcended boundaries which help to define what it means to be a home-grown American hero or just an average US citizen. They are Jihadi-grown. Theyre al Qaeda-grown.

Adam Gadahn is an al Qaeda-grown terrorist and so is the Ft. Hood shooter. Awlaki was al Qaeda-grown. Theyre not (US) home grown, they’re just disgruntled foreigners.

“I still object to media using the term home-grown terrorist.We dont produce these people as though a natural by-product or outcropping of our own society, they have voluntarily transcended boundaries which help to define what it means to be a home-grown American hero or just an average US citizen. They are Jihadi-grown. Theyre al Qaeda-grown”

I agree. I’ve never cared for it either. They’re always looking for some kind of ‘cute’ ‘catchy’ phrase.
And the media seems to apply it to both people who were born here, and people who moved here and became U.S. citizens.
Until someone comes up with a ‘catchier’ label, they’ll keep using it.

They are not calling him a citizen though, but by our current law he was.

So...I cautiously submit that 0bama ordered the killing of a US Citizen without Right to a trial. This could be the start of a dangerous precedent.

Essentially we didn't even give this guy the very thing the progressives demand for the combatants at Gitmo.

We often write here on FR...I may disagree with what you say, but I'll fight for your Right to say it.

Under our current law this citizen had certain Rights. 0bama again crossed borders into a country we're not engaged with to carry out the assination. Recall all the lies told about the killing of Osama.

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posted on 09/30/2011 5:52:16 AM PDT
by EBH
(God Humbles Nations, Leaders, and Peoples before He uses them for His Purpose)

And isn’t ironic that he was born in Las Cruces NM, named for the 3 crosses on Mt. Calvary and he goes on to be a leader in a religion that preaches death and destruction and is the exact opposite of what those symbols represent.

His parents are supposedly Yemeni but I haven't seen where anyone has bothered to interview them. Apparently they had him while attending University in the USA but curiously they seem to be missing these days, perhaps back in Yemen?

Funny thing is, for an "American born" guy there was an early report that he apparently had a visa from another country that indicates he arrived here at the time Iraq invaded and occupied Kuwait, starting the Gulf War. The current press view is that the visa was fake and he just used it to get college preferences.

Interesting that his questionable heritage goes back to that time because the same could be said of Ramzi Yousef's identity.

What is the history of duel citizenship? Has it always been possible? I seem to remember that my nephews, who were born in Peru to my husband’s sister, a US citizen, had to choose which country to be a citizen of when they registered at age 18. Does anyone register anymore? They are now in their early 40s.

The claim that he was American born comes from a guy named Ray Fournier, described as a "former diplomatic security agent." Fournier says he hasen part of a task force [whose task force isn't said working in San Diego on the case of two hijackers who arrived there from Malaysia in January 200.] He says Aulaqi was born in Las Cruces New Mexico in 1971. Awlaki himself claimed to be foreign born when signing up for studies at Colorado State University and received some $20,000 in scholarship money from the US government under a program for foreigners.

The hijackers Aulaqi met with in San Diego were the two who had been met in Malaysia by the Iraqi agent Hikmat Shakir and who attended the terrorist summit held there which was planning the bombing of the USS Cole.

SNIPPET: Paul Rockwood of King Salmon, Alaska and Zachary Adam Chesser of Fairfax, Virginia, could not have been more differentthey lived on opposite sides of the United States and were of different generations, but they shared a common threadthey had both been radicalized by Anwar al-Awlaki. And now they are in the custody of federal authorities for ties to international terrorism.
-—Prosecutions Show Awlakis Continuing Influence in the United States IPT News
July 21, 2010

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